The end of education : toward posthumanism / William V. Spanos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spanos, William V.

Series:

Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 1.

Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Humanism.

Education, Humanistic--United States--History--20th century.

Education, Humanistic.

Education, Higher--Curricula--United States--History--20th century.

Educational change--United States--History--20th century.

Educational change.

Educational anthropology--United States.

Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A contribution to the ongoing debates about the crisis of the humanities in education - which have exploded into the expansive contexts of ideology, cultural politics, "realpolitik", and humanism itself. Argues for and proposes a post-humanist theory of dialogic pedagogy.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Humanistic Understanding and the Onto-theo-logical Tradition: The Ideology of Vision; 2 Humanistic Inquiry and the Politics of the Gaze; 3 The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Educational Theory: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I. A. Richards; 4 The Violence of Disinterestedness: A Genealogy of the Educational ""Reform"" Initiative in the 1980's; 5 The University in the Vietnam Decade: The ""Crisis of Command"" and the ""Refusal of Spontaneous Consent""; The Intellectual and the Posthumanist Occasion: Toward a Decentered Paideia Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-270) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8385-9

OCLC:

476093093